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Denso have announced a new kind of QR Code called ‘Frame QR’. The new code has a blank ‘canvas area’ in the center of the code where images, illustrations, holograms etc., can be placed without affecting scanning and decoding. Frame QR is not compatible with normal QR Codes and requires different software to generate and […]

The Shiba Street community in the ancient Chinese city of Hangzhou are trialing QR Code ‘Intelligent Garbage Disposal’. Every household is issued with QR Coded bags for ‘food waste’ and ‘other’. When they take the bags to a collection point they show the QR Code on the bag to a scanner built into […]

Microsoft announced the development of Dhwani, a secure peer to peer acoustic near field communication, just a week before they announced they would be terminating the Microsoft Tag service. The development was completed at Microsoft Research India and Dhwani is the Hindi word for ’sound’. A novel feature of Dhwani is ‘JamSecure’ a technique which […]

About the author: Patrick Scheibe is head of the image processing core unit at the Translational Centre for Regenerative Medicine (TRM) Leipzig. Beside working in medical image processing he loves interesting problems, is an enthusiastic user of Wolfram Mathematica and an active member of mathematica.stackexchange.com
When I come across QR Codes they are usually printed in […]

When I read of a microtaggant labelled with a QR Code I have to admit that I did not know what a ‘microtaggant’ was. I discovered that it is a microscopic identification particle used to trace or to prevent counterfeiting. For example multi-coloured, multi-layered microscopic particles only half the diameter of a human hair (80 […]

We have seen QR Codes on beer mats (coasters) before and now The Institute of Physics has continued the trend by producing a set with a technology theme (images below). The idea is to get pub goers thinking about physics-based technologies such as the Internet, MP3 players, Smartphones and GPS. 50,000 beer mats with questions […]

I have been sent an article - How To Make An Awesome QR Code - by Ryan Bayron an Intern at integrated marketing consultancy WrightIMC. It’s a good introduction for anyone who is thinking of playing with the look of their QR Code and inserting a logo or graphic. Ryan has included references for further […]

The company responsible for the world’s first edible chocolate QR Code, Tokyo based IT DeSign have announced the release of a free QR Code generator that will embed your Twitter avatar in a QR Code resolving to your Twitter profile page (screenshot below). The generator is a mashup of the Twitter API and IT DeSign’s […]

Digit-Eyes is an iPhone 3G app for the blind and visually impaired community. It makes text or audio QR Code labels you can read with your iPhone and also lets you read the Universal Product Code or European Article Number and find out what’s in the can or package. Nancy Miracle, President, Digital Miracles L.L.C. […]